After the wedding episode, the show's ratings, which were already declining, fell, and ABC canceled The Farmer's Daughter. In the penultimate episode, "Is He or Isn't He?", Katy adopts Glen's sons, providing the series closure as well as a happy ending.

Story summary A farmer's daughter has a grand plan to make a little fortune with which to eventually buy a dress that the boys will notice her in. She is so busy day-dreaming about her goal she loses the very thing that might have helped her reach it.

The film won the Academy Award for Best Actress for Loretta Young and was nominated for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for Charles Bickford.

The farmer's daughter or farm girl is a stock character and stereotype in fiction for the daughter of a farmer, who is often portrayed as a desirable and naïve young woman. She is described as being an "open-air type" and "public-spirited", who will tend to marry a hero and settle down.